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Title: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: James315 on July 13, 2011, 01:15:56 AM Hey guys this is what im going to buy for my first rig. Hopefully outputting 1600-1800 Mhash/s
Could use some feedback on anything i could improve on as far as hardware. Motherboard: $200 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130274 CPU: $40 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103698 RAM: $10 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134787 Case: $120 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811108230 4 x 6970 GPU's: $1250 After Rebate http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814103182 Power supply 1500w - $360 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256054 Total: ~2k Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: The_JMiner on July 13, 2011, 01:42:29 AM Unless your very good at it don't run ubuntu. even after 5 hours of reading guides I could not figure it out. good luck !
Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: Leon on July 13, 2011, 01:43:58 AM Hey guys this is what im going to buy for my first rig. Hopefully outputting 1600-1800 Mhash/s Could use some feedback on anything i could improve on as far as hardware. Motherboard: $200 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130274 CPU: $40 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103698 RAM: $10 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134787 Case: $120 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811108230 4 x 6970 GPU's: $1250 After Rebate http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814103182 Power supply 1500w - $360 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256054 Total: ~2k You could get away with a much cheaper power supply and save money not using a case otherwise everything is solid. Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: somebadger on July 13, 2011, 02:17:05 AM Unless your very good at it don't run ubuntu. even after 5 hours of reading guides I could not figure it out. good luck ! if you follow the guide found on this forum, setting up a fresh 11.04 is rather easy, but u cant skip any steps ;) Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: edge06 on July 13, 2011, 02:17:32 AM Yeah I would go with a slightly less PSU, and a shitty case.
Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: Leon on July 13, 2011, 02:20:14 AM Yeah I would go with a slightly less PSU, and a shitty case. I was also thinking a cheapo motherboard with cables, that would also keep the GPUs very cool. Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: sgravina on July 13, 2011, 02:36:30 AM Your spending $1.23 for each MHash/sec capacity. My seven rigs average $1.10.
You will need some storage for the operating system and software. I use a usb stick. But that is real slow and setting up takes a lot of reboots. I would suggest an inexpensive hard disk. One of my rigs has an 60 GBytes SSD drive, I wouldn't buy one they cost $120, but mine came with a computer I bought off of craigslist. I love it cause it boots so fast. You will spend a lot of time booting the computer. The case looks nice but is not necessary. I run 4 5870's off of a 850 Watt power supply. It draws 700 Watts. Sam Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: Leon on July 13, 2011, 03:20:06 AM Your spending $1.23 for each MHash/sec capacity. My seven rigs average $1.10. You will need some storage for the operating system and software. I use a usb stick. But that is real slow and setting up takes a lot of reboots. I would suggest an inexpensive hard disk. One of my rigs has an 60 GBytes SSD drive, I wouldn't buy one they cost $120, but mine came with a computer I bought off of craigslist. I love it cause it boots so fast. You will spend a lot of time booting the computer. The case looks nice but is not necessary. I run 4 5870's off of a 850 Watt power supply. It draws 700 Watts. Sam Having a low PSU can be risky I would suggest 1000 range, 1500 isn't needed. Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: thavok on July 13, 2011, 03:26:21 AM sounds like a nice rig but I would def spend less on the case and PSU
Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: someoldster on July 13, 2011, 03:57:18 AM I've seen the CPU be the bottleneck in my system while solo mining and I run a quadcore phenom II. If you are going solo I would consider getting a CPU with more cores. Don't worry about spending extra for larger CPU cache if this rig will be for mining only.
Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: someoldster on July 13, 2011, 04:01:01 AM I've seen the CPU be the bottleneck in my system while solo mining and I run a quadcore phenom II. If you are going solo I would consider getting a CPU with more cores. Don't worry about spending extra for larger CPU cache if this rig will be for mining only. Also, at a minimum use Arctic Silver or better thermal paste for the CPU heatsink. The stock cooler and paste didn't get the job done for me (core temps exceeding 70 Deg C and emergency system shutdowns - not at all fun). Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: Arius on July 13, 2011, 02:14:01 PM Why buy a case? How much are you spending on the hard drive? Storage is a big problem. You'll see people buy a cheap spin-up hard drive, but a solid-state one is worth the few extra dollars for a lower power consumption rate. Skip the 6970, it's not worth the money. Best bet is 5x 5830s and 5 PCI x16 riser cables. It's gonna get hot as all hell, what's your cooling solution? I use a dozen box fans and a crude bit of duct work. If you go with the Sempron, use Ubuntu. Windows will bottleneck without a milti-core processor.
Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: MarkG on July 13, 2011, 02:41:24 PM 2K only for mining?? Will you ever get this money back???
Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: TheGrapist on July 13, 2011, 02:49:11 PM like others have said get a cheaper case and psu....GL :)
Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: Einewton on July 13, 2011, 03:16:57 PM Always remember the reselling value... :)
Title: Re: About to buy my first rig.... Post by: bitebitebite on July 13, 2011, 03:35:20 PM $2000 for ~$16 a day and dropping (1x 6990 got me this ~ 1 month ago). Resell or not, dosent sound like a wise investment to me.
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